Levinsky College of Education, 15 Shoshana Persitz St., Tel Aviv |10 April 2014

Schedule

8:30 – 9:30 Registration and browsing around the materials exhibition

9:30 – 9:45 Opening & greetings

9.45 – 10.00 The British Council: Introducing the Routes to Excellence programme

10:00 – 10:45 Plenary I Dr. Judy Steiner,Chief Inspector for English Language Education The Revised Curriculum in the Classroom

10:45 – 11:00 Short Break

11:00 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions I

12.00 – 12:30 Break & browsing

12:30 – 13:15 Plenary II Dr. Ofra Inbar, Tel Aviv University Teaching English in English? Let’s talk about it

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch break & browsing

14.00 – 14.45 Parallel Sessions II

15.00 – 15.45 Plenary III Dr. Amos Paran, University of London It feels right but is it? Intuitions, hard evidence and teaching

15.45 – 16.00 Raffle: win great prizes

Materials exhibition open

all day. Don’t miss it!

Clean out your cupboard: bring old worksheets

to the Swap Corner

Hot drinks and cakes provided

by ETAI

Meal vouchers courtesy of UPP

Registration and conference fees

ETAI members: NIS 35

Non-members: NIS 75

Students: NIS 30

Presenters: NIS 25

Non-member retirees: NIS 50

You are kindly requested to wear your name tag throughout the day; people without tags will be denied entrance to sessions. ETAI does not take responsibility for the content of the presentations or materials presented

at the conference.

Many thanks to:

Eric Cohen Books, UPP and Brainpop for contributing conference bags

and their contents Wiz Kids

for name tags

Program 8:30 – 9:30 Registration. Browsing around the materials exhibition

9:30 – 9:45 Opening and greetings: Michele Ben,ETAI Chair Prof. Hanna Ezer, Dean of the Faculty of Education, Levinsky College Prof. Elkad Lehman, Dean of the Multi-disciplinary Faculty, Levinsky College

9.45 – 10.00 The British Council: Introducing the Routes to Excellence programme

10:00 – 10:45 Plenary I Dr. Judy Steiner, Chief Inspector for English Language Education The Revised Curriculum in the Classroom

Parallel Sessions I 11.00 – 12.00 Room

Avraham Roos, Levinsky College - Where Do Words Come From?

This lecture talks about etymology, explains how new words are created, explains about onomatopoeia, deriving, blending, clipping, backformation and other technical terms, tells fascinating stories about the origin of words and shows how multilingual the English language is.

Lecture

HS TE

409

Naomi Geffen and Dana Prop, BrainPop - Turn, Turn, Turn: Vocabulary and Grammar

How can we cope with vocabulary and grammar lists and still be interesting? Let’s take a closer look at the principles and strategies suggested in the new/revised curriculum. We will show how BrainPOP ESL can help students acquire the receptive and productive knowledge needed to turn the wheel of language learning.

Lecture

C E JH

410

Ann Shlapobersky - The 21st Century Digital Classroom and EFL: Plan for it

In this talk we will discuss what a digital classroom is for us, as teachers, and our students; how effective technology is in language learning; what to think about when preparing a digital task for our EFL classroom and how to integrate digital course books.

Lecture

E JH

411

Ellyn Marciano - Not Too Old For Games

Games are not just "Child's Play". Older students still enjoy playing games, as long as they are challenging, relevant and not childish. See how you can activate your students by having them create and play games that are designed to improve vocabulary, communication skills and more.

Workshop

HS JH

425

Iris Shenkman, Levinsky College - YES, You Can Use More English in Your Lessons

How much English or mother tongue (Hebrew, Arabic etc.) to use is a never-ending source of debate and concern. But, no matter what you think, there are nice and easy ways of incorporating more, natural English in your lessons. Come and see for yourself!

Lecture

E JH HS TE

426

Amanda Caplan - Teaching Technique, Teaching Style, Teaching Method, Teaching Strategy …David Beckham?

David Beckham is an example of someone who doesn't go away because he's "old". He's here to stay, like many of our teaching methods, or teaching techniques, or teaching styles, or any other collocation. What does David Beckham have to do with collocations? Come to this talk to find out!

Lecture

JH HS

427

Nicola Crowley, British Council - Flipping the Classroom The flipped classroom is the latest approach that everyone is talking about it – but how can it be used to maximise learning and output of your students? This interactive workshop will explore resources and tools for getting the most out of classroom time and homework.

Workshop

JH HS U AE

430

Rechie Judy Eisner - Springing the Squeamish into Speaking Success

Our students can identify past perfect participles of declarative conjunctions, but when it comes to actual conversation formidable fear sets in. This class will demonstrate how to ease young students into speaking and will provide practical techniques that facilitate speaking skills.

Workshop

E

431

BY PRE-REGISTRATION– FOR ETAI MEMBERS ONLY

Prof. Penny Ur OBE - Beginning and Ending the Lesson: Some Tips

In this lecture-discussion the speaker and participants will share thoughts on a relatively neglected topic in English teaching: how to begin and end lessons. Condition of participation: all teachers who sign up for this session should bring with them at least one useful tip on the topic, based on classroom experience as teachers or learners.

Lecture

434

12.00 – 12.30 Break and Browsing

12.30 – 13.15 Plenary II Dr. Ofra Inbar, Tel Aviv University

Teaching English in English? Let’s talk about it

The widely held belief that the only language used in the language classroom should be the target foreign

language is currently being debated. In this talk I will highlight some of the issues being raised and bring

evidence from research to discuss the possible role and use of other languages in the English classroom,

as well as teachers' perceptions regarding language use.

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch break & browsing

Meal vouchers courtesy of UPP

Parallel Sessions II 14.00-14.45 Room

Yehezkel Bund - Teaching Learning Disabled Students: When the Cupboard is Bare

Do you often wish you had a lot more time and better funding when teaching LD learners? Whether you have learning disabled learners in a heterogeneous class or a "special education" class, this workshop will focus on practical tips on how to make the most of the resources you have.

Workshop

JH HS

409

Judy Henn, Technion - Who’s Afraid of Business English?

Prepare your higher education students for the international world of business by giving them oral and written skills. Teach them how to answer a business email, write a cover letter, undergo a job interview, give an oral presentation and make small talk - in polite English - all through role play and simulations.

Lecture

AE BE

410

Netti Susman, ECB -What's COOL for sixth grade?

COOL - a new heterogeneous course for your 6th grade classes in accordance with the REVISED curriculum.

Lecture

C E

411

Leah Doryoseph - Take Out Your Phones, Please

Would you like to harness the power of those little pocket disturbances called smartphones? Come hear about some practical activities you can use in your English lessons. BYOD – Bring Your Own Device.

Lecture

JH HS

425

Hadar Peled - Disconnect in Order to Reconnect

A meaningful use of technology.Everyone is talking about using computers, laptops and tablets in the classroom. Aren't we forgetting that the most important thing is the meaningful connection between the teacher and the students? So how can we be relevant and be "old school" in the "new school" era?

Lecture

E JH

426

Merav Badash, Kibbutzim College - Effective Classroom Conversation: Taking Turns and Talking Time

Successful conversation is an essential part of effective classroom management. This lecture discusses basic cooperative principles speakers follow, turn allocation in the classroom (who gets to speak, when and for how long), and the relationship between student talk time and teacher's talk time during the lesson.

Lecture

JH TE

427

Kara Aharon - English is Fun to Read

Young Israeli pupils learning to read English must master a new alphabet, sounds that don't exist in their native language and letters used as vowels, and do it all in the opposite direction. I use songs, games and other activities to make it easy and fun.

Workshop

E

430

Gil Rechtman - Clarifying the Relationship: The Private Teacher and the Classroom Teacher

Most teachers teach both in the classroom and privately. But is there a difference in the way we teach these two groups? What is the job of the private teacher? Should the classroom teacher instruct the private teacher? Should they always cooperate? How do we avoid friction between the two?

Lecture

E JH

431

15.00 – 15.45 Plenary III Dr. Amos Paran, University of London

It feels right but is it? Intuitions, hard evidence and teaching

In this talk I look at a number of areas in language learning and the way in which our intuitions may not always be borne out by research. I look at a number of different areas of research which can inform the practice of language teaching. The research I am interested in explores language, language learning, and language processing. In each case, I will discuss the implications for the language classroom based on one or two findings from each area.

15.45 – 16.00 Raffle: win great prizes!

We wish you an enjoyable and fruitful conference!

Conference Conveners:

Leo Selivan, Sharona Attiya and Lindsey Shapiro-Steinberg

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Abbreviation Key

E = Elementary School JH = Junior High School HS = High School U = University

TE = Teacher Education BE = Business English AE = Adult Education C = Commercial